Both Uses of
absolve
in
Atlas Shrugged
- His wife, the señora Gonzales, was a small, attractive woman, not as beautiful as she assumed, but enjoying the reputation of a beauty by means of a violent nervous energy and an odd manner of loose, warm, cynical self-assertiveness that seemed to promise anything and to absolve anyone.†
Chpt 3.4 *absolve = find blameless; or forgive
- But he raised his head to glance up at her face, and it seemed to her that the look she saw in his eyes was part-gratification, part-contempt-almost as if, by some unknown kind of sanction, she had absolved him and damned herself.†
Chpt 3.4absolved = found blameless; or forgave
Definition:
to find someone blameless; or forgive; or relieve (of a requirement or obligation)